The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL),located on the campus of Michigan State University was a rare isotope research facility in the United States. Established in 1963,the cyclotron laboratory has been succeeded by the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams,a linear accelerator providing beam to the same detector halls.
Siegfried S. Hecker is an American metallurgist and nuclear scientist. He served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997 and is now affiliated with Stanford University,where he is research professor emeritus in the Department of Management Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering,and senior fellow emeritus at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. During this time,he was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1988) for outstanding research on plutonium and the forming of materials,and for leadership in developing energy and weapons systems.
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council,chartered in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the president of the United States on science and technology. The current PCAST was established by Executive Order 13226 on September 30,2001,by George W. Bush,was re-chartered by Barack Obama's April 21,2010,Executive Order 13539,by Donald Trump's October 22,2019,Executive Order 13895,and by Joe Biden's February 1,2021,Executive Order 14007.
Uma Chowdhry is an American chemist whose career has been spent in research and management positions with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. She has specialized in the science of ceramic materials,including catalysts,proton conductors,superconductors and ceramic packaging for microelectronics.
Transformative research is a term that became increasingly common within the science policy community in the 2000s for research that shifts or breaks existing scientific paradigms. The idea has its provenance in Thomas Kuhn's notion of scientific revolutions,where one scientific paradigm is overturned for another. Classic examples are the Copernican Revolution,Albert Einstein's theories,the work of Watson and Crick,and plate tectonics theory.
Tanjore Ramachandra Anantharaman was one of India's pre-eminent metallurgists and materials scientists.
S. Shankar Sastry is the Founding Chancellor of the Plaksha University,Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California,Berkeley.
Hussein M. Zbib was Lebanese-born American engineer. He was a professor in School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University,where he has also served as director of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and director of the Computational Mechanics and Materials Laboratory. His research expertise was in the area of thermo-mechanical behavior and properties of solids. Zbib was recognized for his work on the theory of 3D dislocation dynamics and defects in metals,multi-scale modeling of metal plasticity,and strain gradient plasticity theory.
Amit Goyal is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at SUNY-Buffalo. He leads the Laboratory for Heteroepitaxial Growth of Functional Materials &Devices He is also Director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Plastics Recycling Research &Innovation,an externally funded center with initial funding of $4.5M for three years at SUNY-Buffalo. He is the Founding Director of the multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary RENEW Institute at SUNY-Buffalo in Buffalo,New York and served as Director from 2015-2021. RENEW is an internally funded research institute at SUNY-Buffalo. For his contributions to UB,in 2019,he was awarded the University at Buffalo or SUNY-Buffalo President's Medal,which recognizes “outstanding scholarly or artistic achievements,humanitarian acts,contributions of time or treasure,exemplary leadership or any other major contribution to the development of the University at Buffalo and the quality of life in the UB community.”This is one of the highest recognitions given at the university.
Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs) are university based research centers supported by the MRSEC Program of the Division of Materials Research at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The centers support interdisciplinary research on materials science. MRSECs are a significant component of NSF's center-based research portfolio. MRSECs were established by NSF in 1994 but their roots go back to the post-Sputnik era. These centers required significant changes in the conduct of materials research and education.
Arati Prabhakar is an American engineer serving as the 12th director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Science Advisor to the President since October 3,2022. She was the former head of DARPA,the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,a position she held from July 30,2012 to January 20,2017. She is a founder and the CEO of Actuate,a nonprofit organization.
Walter R. Hibbard Jr was an American metallurgist,a distinguished professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the 11th director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in President Johnson's administration.
Palle Rama Rao FREng is an Indian scientist noted for his contribution to the field of Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy. He has collaborated and conducted research activities for over dozen universities and associations all over India and abroad. He has been honoured with the titles of Padma Vibhushan in 2011 by president of India for his contributions to scientific community. He is acting as the chairman,Governing Council,International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy &New Materials (ARCI),Hyderabad.
Chandrathil Gouri Krishnadas Nair is an Indian technocrat,teacher and metallurgical scientist known for his contributions in the field of aeronautical metallurgy. Dr Nair was given the Padma Shri Award by the Government of India for his contributions to science and technology in 2001.
Bhakta B. Rath is an Indian American material physicist and Head of the Materials Science and Component Technology of the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL),the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. He is the chief administrative officer for program planning,interdisciplinary coordination,supervision and control of research and is the associate director of research for Materials Science and Component Technology at NRL.
Debasish "Deba" Dutta is an American mechanical engineer and higher education administrator. He is the current chancellor of the University of Michigan-Flint.
Tresa M. Pollock is ALCOA Distinguished Professor of Materials at the Department of Materials,University of California,Santa Barbara. Pollock is internationally recognised in the development of new materials systems,including alloys,3D characterisation of structure and properties,and development of integrated computation materials engineering.
Kaushik Roy is a researcher and educator in the area of electrical and computer engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and holds the position of Edward G. Tiedemann,Jr.,Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Roy is the Director of the Center for Brain-Inspired Computing (C-BRIC).
